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Wayve

Wayve is building a general-purpose driving intelligence that learns from data and scales across vehicles, geographies, and applications.

Startup
Website
Total raised
$2.31B
3 rounds
Last round
$60.0M
Series D · Apr 15, 2026
Systems
3

Funding3 rounds · $2.31B

Equity raised
$2.31B
Latest
$60.0MSeries D · Apr 15, 2026
Last valuation
$8.60BPost-money · Series D · Feb 25, 2026
Cumulative raised$2.31B
May 7, 2024Apr 15, 2026

Raised counts equity rounds; debt, secondary sales and grants are totaled separately. Amounts in other currencies are converted at the announcement month's average rate. A ~ marks an estimated or converted amount.

Systems3

GAIA

World-model software for generating synthetic driving-scene video for AI development.

Maturity not rated

Wayve AI Driver

AI driving software platform for assisted and automated driving applications.

Maturity not rated

Wayve AI Sense

Driver-assistance software providing perception and risk-awareness functions.

Maturity not rated

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People1

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  • Alex Kendall

    co-founder and CEO

Sources8

Profile2

  1. 1
    DatabaseSixth-Domain public startups directory

    Sixth-Domain · Supports Organization · kind

    “{"group": "startups", "id": "f96e583c-9845-4252-bc85-3c6b59fc5d75", "name": "Wayve"}”
  2. 2
    CompanyWayve: Reimagining Autonomous Driving with Embodied AI Technology

    Wayve · Supports Organization · description, Organization · name, Organization · website

    “Wayve is building a general-purpose driving intelligence that learns from data and scales across vehicles, geographies, and applications.”

Systems2

  1. 3
    CompanyFrom Assisted to Fully Automated Driving: The Wayve AI Driver Solution

    Wayve · Supports System

    “Wayve AI Driver is built from experience, not rules. Powered by embodied AI, it perceives, reasons, and acts with real-world understanding, delivering safe, generalisable driving behaviour across cities, conditions, and vehicle platforms.”
  2. 4
    CompanyPioneering a New Paradigm in AV Safety: Solving Long-Tail Challenges

    Wayve · Supports System

    “Wayve’s GAIA generates realistic driving scene videos with high controllability. This plentiful source of synthetic data efficiently fills data gaps around edge cases.”

Funding3

  1. 5
    CompanyWayve secures $60m extension to its Series D from AMD, Arm and Qualcomm

    Wayve · Apr 15, 2026 · Supports Funding round · amount, Funding round · announced on, Organization · ownership

    “**London, UK, 15 April 2026 –** Wayve, the leader in embodied AI for autonomous driving, today announced a $60 million investment from technology companies Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Arm and Qualcomm Ventures, extending its Series D round. The investment builds on Wayve’s [$1.2 billion Series D](https://wayve.ai/press/series-d/), backed by leading financial investors, global technology companies and automakers, as it deploys the Wayve AI Driver in production vehicles.”
  2. 6
    CompanyWayve raises $1.2bn to accelerate the deployment of embodied AI for autonomous driving

    Wayve · Feb 25, 2026 · Supports Funding round · amount, Funding round · announced on, Funding round · investors, Funding round · post money valuation usd

    “**London, UK, 25 Feb 2026** – Wayve, the leader in embodied AI for autonomous driving, today announced it has raised $1.2 billion in a Series D investment round, bringing its post-money valuation to $8.6 billion. The funding accelerates the company’s shift from AI research leadership to scaled commercial deployment of its end-to-end AI platform.”
  3. 7
    CompanyWayve Raises Over $1 Billion Led by SoftBank to Develop Embodied AI Products for Automated Driving

    Wayve · May 7, 2024 · Supports Funding round · amount, Funding round · announced on

    “Wayve, the market leader in Embodied artificial intelligence (AI) for autonomous driving, is thrilled to announce the successful closure of $1.05 billion in Series C funding. This round was led by SoftBank Group (“SoftBank”), with contributions from new investor NVIDIA and existing investor Microsoft. This investment will accelerate Wayve’s mission to reimagine autonomous mobility through embodied intelligence.”

People1

  1. 8
    CompanyAlex Kendall

    Wayve · Supports Role

    “Alex Kendall is the co-founder and CEO of Wayve, a company pioneering AI technology to power self-driving vehicles.”

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